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Fahrenheit 451

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Fahrenheit 451
by Authors: Ray Bradbury

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Description: In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."

Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.

Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman

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The book Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is about a fireman named Guy Montag. In his world, firemen started fires to burn books-as both their job and their own pleasure. He never questions why they burned books or the way society was, until he met a seventeen year old girl named Clarisse McClellan, who, with the help of an old professor helped him examine the past and what they have become in the present. Guy began to question society, and figure out what he had to do to change it.

When I originally began reading this book, I found it confusing and a little hard to follow because of its futuristic setting and characters. However, as I got farther into the book, it was easier to understand the story line and the plot. Even as he wrote it in 1953, Ray Bradbury makes outstanding points in his book about the messages that society and the media sends to us today. No matter how convincing they may be, it is the truth that matters. This book opened my eyes to many questions about the way we live today, and how we can change the bad one step and a time.


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My favorite book. Excellent piece of dystopian literature. Read it!

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I LOVE IT!!!!

I had to read this book for a high school assignment. I personally hate a lot of books, especially if I am forced to read it. But as soon as I read the first chapter I was hooked! It a riveting tale of freedom, and fighting for what you believe in. It is absolutely a page turner! If you like books that have a great flow of action, then this book if for you!

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